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When the bicycle (and its predecessor, the velocipede) was introduced to cities in Europe and the United States in the 1800s, it unsettled the realms of public and private transportation in a way similar to what electric scooters are doing today. Cities weren't equipped, either in infrastructure or policy, to handle them. Conflicted publics alternately cheered on innovation, and fretted over concerns of safety and practicality.

The reaction to the introduction of bicycles was in many ways strikingly similar to how cities are grappling with the rise of electric scooters today. To illustrate this we've created a 10-question quiz, below. Each question consists of a quote. Your job is to figure out whether it was written about bicycles in the 1800s, or about scooters today.